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"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Arts and Entertainment
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Arts and Entertainment "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl My other wife is beautiful. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Arts and Entertainment
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Arts and Entertainment A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Arts and Entertainment
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Arts and Entertainment In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Arts and Entertainment
